New-York tribune., 1887-11-24
TIE STANDARD OIL CASES
RAILROAD AGENTS ON THE STAND.

TRYING TO PROVE THAT DISCRIMINATION WAS
MADE IN FAVOR OF THE CoRroKATIoN
WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.-The examination OF J. NJ Culp
general freight agent OF the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad was continued before the Interstate Comma
sion this morning in connection with the Standard Oil
Witness hcsatcd great deal in giving his te s;i
mony The chairman questioned the witness fer half an
hour respecting printed tariff sheet issued by wit
ness giving among other information the rates upon
Mr. Culp admitted that the rates were these
given OH the sheet but special rates issued from
timc to time and posted in stations. The chairman ad
vscd the witness to take counsel with the attorney OF his
road as 10 whether he was complying with the NTH sec
toh OF TIC Interstate Commerce law respecting the pub
hcatlOn OF rates and the filing o; copies with the commits
sion
III was developed that the vitncsss road owned the
fortysiX cars upon which the standard oil Company
had placed tanks These ears were not omen for the use
OF any others than the STANDARD OIL Company 1t was
iur'hcr developed that since April 3 the witness
hau refused TO give Mr.. Rice Ohe com
Piainahp any rates upon Oil from Louis
VILE TO Nashville and Louisville TO Montgomery
despite repeated applications by letter. hut had
invariably referred Mr. hce the agent OF the connect
ig M me al Cincinnati and had at times accompanied
ieIerehce with some rather forcDlc expressions OF
Following ihs the witness said in reply to inquiry
from Cincinuatlto Nashville Thsrrnpon the connsci
produced letter from Brent Arnold, the Cincinnati
ter. dated May Il. quoted rates from Cincna to onis-
Nie AT 81 80 and another OF a similar puruort dated
September |. The witness Thought the 1rsi a mistake
Dnt on ne production OF the second he assumed that
rac quoted was based upon the local rate OF forty
Ir"in Cincinnati TO Louisville and ninety cents from
L?ll>Vllle TO Nashville The rates given the standard
oll onpanN were twenty-five cents hundred pounds,
Dtrrel being reCkohed ut 51j pounds.
Inc illornaon session was Consumed in the CXalnina-
nor o IL t"llhran general freight of the Ciucin
nai NcW-orleanS and Texas Pacific I;ailwav The
crt theories Envernin. railroad rates brsug ont
VIII TEDIOUS minuencSs III" gSt OF tic direct examine
tloh was embodied III query hv co nmSsioncr Walker
VINO cte1 attention to wiin~sSS admission that rates
upon oil Per GundrcI pounds hftt>IN in bar
reIs and twenty-five cents when carried in tanks. reckon
ing 2looO lnds tho tank and asked II witness
wished e eier anything in rNpiaraiion of this dis
p3rltT. witness replied in tho negative
inc commissioned asked II The would not be
SUI greater when, usual. the tank held than
ZtuoJ pounds, to which witness replied IN the affirm
ative.
were epe akc 10 Mr.. Rice. the standard Oh Company
anu an Olhcr >hlprcrS lie. no admitted mat
Ter OF ldc that the tank rates only made bctNcen
stationary tanks hecsuSc called for elsewhere or
by the attorneys O the wltaesss road
the iact was brought ont that three of oil had
noen haile ny The other shippers than tie
standard oil Company. two OF them bsng for Mr.. Rice.
tc complainant. In one of the latter instances the
was accepted aud hauled al the shippers estimate ef
lis chpacty-3 900 pOunls-at wich the service
was paid Tor. In fact. the cars capacity 3j.9JO
pounds the excess being much IL the advantage OF
Mr. Rice.
The further hearing is adjourned until Frl1y.